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Our lives seem to depend more on our phones and less on our computers every day, and that has left Microsoft in a bit of an awkward position for the past few years. Would you rather be a big fish in a big pond, or a bigger fish in a bigger pond?
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After APA style change sets world afire, researchers justify double-space but plea for peace. Will we ever have peace in our time?
of course there's an xkcd for that[^]
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The study used a fixed font (courier) which makes it useless. I'd like to see it repeated with both serif and sans serif fonts and then have that study replicated (60-90% of studies can't be replicated.)
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Yeah, that struck me as a completely stupid move on their part. Two spaces was due to monospace in the first place (at least that I heard)
TTFN - Kent
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They say it doesn't appreciably slow people down, despite having to do extra work to determine if the sentence has ended.
To me, that means "it's wrong, but not wrong enough to be a problem."
I insist upon two spaces. It makes things so much easier - like parsing out the sentences just using [space][space] as the delimiter, rather than having to look for . ! and ?
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One of the key challenges of moving IoT devices from concept to reality is to have long-lasting operation with tightly constrained energy sources, and thus extreme power efficiency So we can hardware-accelerate, "Did you turn it off and back on again?"
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So, they just reinvented solar calculators from the 1980s.
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TL;DR
even with solar power IO(pwnd)T duhvices frequently restart because their battery gets drained, we used a chip so low power that it can run on solar even in a very dim room and are going to pretend that will solve the problem entirely and ignore that right sizing the solar panels and battery could make it work with existing hardware and that completely dark environments exist.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The MSVC compiler toolset in Visual Studio version 15.7 conforms with the C++ Standard! Time for a new standard!
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"With Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 we’re shipping a complete implementation of almost all features in the C++ Standard..."
We are feature complete, by which we mean, we're not.
(At least they finally finished filesystem; been using that a lot lately. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how many of it's shortcomings are the unfinished implementation or an incomplete standard.)
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Yeah, I thought that was weird too. "We're 100% Conformant! Except, here and ... here and ... here...! But it's ok, we're 100% conformant!"
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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There is a common narrative in the world of AI that bigger is better. To train the fastest algorithms, they say, you need the most expansive datasets and the beefiest processors. You just need plenty of 'I' behind your 'AI'
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The two languages, which are free to use, are often seen as competitors in the world of data science. It's even more PythonR
Look! Some actual non-Microsoft news today!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Look! Some actual non-Microsoft news today!
Most worthy news starts as non-Microsoft news. Then Microsoft buys the company or patents the technology, if Apple or Google doesn't beat them to it first. 
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A startup called Learning Machine wants to completely migrate your important documents into the digital era by placing them on the blockchain. Hello, my name is node 24d95a54, pleased to meet you
Edit: added the missing 'd'. Awaiting editor's invoice.
modified 9-May-18 14:27pm.
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That will be $70 to fix the missed 'd' after 'please'. Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal only.
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Submit a work request to our JIRA queue 
TTFN - Kent
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I guess it wasn't subtle enough (or I don't understand JIRA well enough to get the additional joke). For the $70, I'd point a 'miner' at the problem... (or however that sh*t works)
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I was assuming you were offering proof reading services for $70 for my typo?
If so, I was suggesting you submit a change request and I'll get to it with the urgency it requires.
If not, apologies, I guess you were too subtle.
TTFN - Kent
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Yes, too subtle. I was offering to 'mine' the blockchain to fix the issue for $70. (Although you really can't fix it that way.)
True story: once as a kid my dad got mad at me because my humor was too dry, and he didn't get it.
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Ah, apologies - didn't get that connection (and with a few anonymous drive-by insults about the newsletter, I've been a little sensitive lately). 
TTFN - Kent
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If they are anonymous bitchers, it isn't worth worrying about - delete the twats. I do! They are the lowest form of trolls, and not worthy of ASCII representation, nor Unicode!
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Learning Machine wants to completely migrate your important documents into the digital era by placing them on the blockchain.
Gads, why? If you have a document trail that you want to record, like a contract, changes to a contract, renewals, cancellations, etc., you don't need blockchain for that, you just need a hashchain.
A hash chain is the successive application of a cryptographic hash function to a piece of data. ... For non-repudiation a hash function can be applied successively to additional pieces of data in order to record the chronology of data's existence.
From that link:
However, a blockchain (as used by Bitcoin and related systems) is generally intended to support distributed consensus around a public ledger (data), and incorporates a set of rules for encapsulation of data and associated data permissions.
Often overkill -- do you need the data to be distributed, and in a public ledger, and rules for adding documents to the chain, etc? If yes, then maybe a blockchain is the right solution, but many "documents" that I work with are private, not distributed, don't require consensus, don't have "rules" per say, and permissions are already handled by the data store. That said, the benefit of a hashchain exists -- ensuring a document in the chain isn't modified after it's been added and having a chronology of the different documents that represent a contract and their changes over time is still useful.
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Visual Studio IntelliCode brings you the next generation of developer productivity by providing AI-assisted development. Get some intelligence into your codez!
Not to be confused with Visual Studio Intellisense, Visual Studio Intellisense, or Visual Studio Code
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Soon, they'll add IntelliSnark and you'll be out of a job.
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